Hello friends… It has been awhile! Diets?! I don’t bother with them. Don’t believe in them. I believe moderation and physical excersise is the key. Well I can’t stay long today just wanted to pop in. Summer is keeping me outdoors, traveling, visiting with family and enjoying photographing the great outdoors.

Hi. I’ve gone on a few diets, esp in highschool and at the request of my boss when I worked the beauty supply/salon (Now I look back and wonder why I even thought I had to go on a diet and why she would have the nerve to ask me too….I looked great!! ). I cannot remember names of specific ones but one of them was a shake diet (tasted horrible). Another I just basically starved myself. Never got any results.

“Any weight-loss expert would agree that boosting your veggie and fruit intake while reducing the amount of junk you eat is a safe and effective way to lose weight, but this diet bans foods that have been cooked or processed in any way. Why? Raw foodies say cooking destroys nutrients.

I love the fact fact that we are getting all the freshfruits and vegtables right now. And I preserve a lot. be in the winter its so hard to get fresh food . Just because the nearest major grocery store is a hour away.

I remember from last week (I think) when we talked about how cooking can bring out the good in some veggies. I love me some good raw veggies but prefer them cooked. I would love to learn how to juice but yes, prep time to be on a raw diet would be a workout in it self.

“The grandmother of all fad diets, the bulk of this plan is fat-free cabbage soup, eaten two to three times a day for a week along with other low-calorie foods such as bananas and skim milk. In the short term, it does yield weight loss.

“It works because you are eating a low-calorie diet full of fiber and water to help aid in fullness,” Caspero says. “But it’s just a quick fix diet. It can also promote bloating and gas from all the cabbage and is lacking in protein, which is needed to preserve lean body mass. While I am a fan of nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods for weight loss, it should be balanced with other foods such as fruits, carbohydrates, healthy fats and lean protein.””

I have a receipe for beef and cabbage soup that’s very old. My family loves it. I make a pan of cornbread to go with it. Its so good. I have been making a cabbage roll soup that I got off of pinterest the other day. And I preserve my cabbage from the garden every year.

“We are all for including produce at every meal, but the various versions of this 80-year-old fad diet instruct dieters to focus all of their meals on grapefruit or grapefruit juice, claiming that the fruit contains fat-busting enzymes that will help dieters lose 10-plus pounds in 12 days. “In reality, any time you are following a very-low calorie diet you will lose weight,” Caspero says.

And this diet definitely hits that, limiting dieters to 800 to 1,000 calories a day. Some iterations also prohibit eating extremely hot or extremely cold foods, preparing foods in aluminum pans, and requires dieters to space “protein meals” and “starch meals” at least four hours apart.”

THE LEMONADE DIET

“This diet has been around for decades, and there are a ton of variations. Pretty much all involve subsisting for days on only lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper mixed in water. “You are essentially just drinking diuretics,” Ochner says.

“You’ll shed mostly water weight.” Once you start eating solid foods again, you will gain all the weight back. Common side effects include fatigue, nausea, dizziness and dehydration.

Plus, on an extremely low-calorie diet like this one, you are going to lose muscle, exactly the kind of weight you don’t want to lose, Caspero says.”

I am not a fan of grapefruit but have heard of this one before. My brother actually just did the lemonade thing last year. Low and behold he did shed some weight but this year is above what he was when he started! lol

“If a baby can grow up eating the mushy stuff, eating some definitely won’t hurt you, but guess what: You aren’t a baby. Dieters replace breakfast and lunch with about 14 jars of baby food (most baby food jars contain 20 and 100 calories apiece), and then they eat a low-calorie dinner.

It’s easy to get too few calories for your body to run its best, Ochner says. Besides, who really wants to take jars of baby food to work each day?”

THE FIVE BITE DIET
“Eat whatever you want — but only five bites of it. On this diet, developed by obesity doctor Alwin Lewis, M.D., you skip breakfast and eat only five bites of food for lunch and five more for dinner.

“I’m OK with the idea of eating whatever you want in smaller portions, but you need to round out the rest of your eating with nutrient-dense foods to give your body the fuel it needs,” Caspero says. “On this diet, even if you take giant bites of heavily caloric food, you’re still barely consuming 900 to 1,000 calories a day.””

That baby food diet sound disgusting!! Why why why? The crazy things people do. And the 5 bite diet? Silly. Why not just eat healthy and slow and your body will tell you when you are full so you do not over eat.

“Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, The Hollywood Cookie Diet and the Smart for Life Cookie Diet all promise that eating cookies will help you drop pounds. Of course, you don’t get to chow down chocolate-chip cookies – you eat about 500 to 600 calories a day from high-protein and high-fiber weight-loss cookies (one cookie company even makes the cookies from egg and milk protein) for breakfast, lunch and any snacks.

Then you eat a normal dinner, for a total of 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day. If you stick to the diet, you will likely lose some weight, but by depriving yourself all day, you set yourself up for binging come dinnertime, Ochner says.”

ALKALINE DIETS
“The alkaline diet – also known as the alkaline ash diet and the alkaline acid diet — requires you cut out meat, dairy, sweets, caffeine, alcohol, artificial and processed foods and consume more fresh fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds. The diet certainly has positive points; it’s heavy on fresh produce and other healthy, satisfying foods while eliminating processed fare, which in itself may spur weight loss.

But your body is incredibly efficient at keeping your pH levels where they need to be, so cutting out these foods really won’t affect your body’s pH, says Ochner. Not to mention there’s no research proving that pH affects your weight in the first place. The bottom line: The diet is strict, complicated and bans foods that can have a place in a healthy eating plan, such as meat, dairy and alcohol.”

“Developed by naturopathic physician Peter D’Adamo, the Blood Type Diet is based on the notion that the foods you eat react chemically with your blood type. For example, on the diet, those with type O blood are to eat lean meats, vegetables and fruits, and avoid wheat and dairy.

However, there’s no scientific proof that your blood type affects weight loss. And depending on your blood type, the diet can be extremely restrictive.”

THE WEREWOLF DIET

“Also called the lunar diet, this one is simply fasting according to the lunar calendar. Its quick-fix version involves a day of fasting allowing only water and juice during a full or new moon – and supposedly losing up to six pounds in water weight in a single day. The extended version starts with that daylong fast and continues with specific eating plans for each phase of the moon.

While you’ll lose some weight from not eating, it has nothing to do with the moon, and it will come right back, Ochner says.”

Galz,
Manipulation with people’s minds happens when people do not do their research, do not read what’s out there, do not have their “BS detector” working!
They just accept anything that is dished their way, without ASKING any questions.

“This edge-of-starvation diet limits you to about 500 calories a day while taking human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a hormone that proponents tout as a powerful appetite suppressant.

However, there’s no evidence that HCG does more than act as a placebo, Ochner says. Yes, you’ll lose weight, but only due to the extreme calorie restriction.

Though a health care provider may legally give you HCG injections, they’re typically used to treat fertility issues in women and the FDA has not approved them for weight loss. As for over-the-counter homeopathic products that supposedly contain HCG? Those are illegal.”

LOOK AT THESE ODD AND VERY DANGEROUS DIETS! WHEW, THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY WEIRD AND BEYOND IMAGINATION, AT LEAST FOR ME.

THE TAPEWORM DIET

“”You don’t need a doctor to tell you that ingesting a tapeworm is a bad idea,” Ochner says. But apparently, some people do. This weight-loss tactic has been around for decades, preying on especially desperate dieters. Here’s how it goes: Ingest tapeworm eggs, let the tapeworm eat the food you consume once it gets to your intestines, and then, when you lose enough weight, get a doctor to prescribe you an anti-worm medication.

But some tapeworm eggs can migrate to various parts of your body or cause other potentially life-threatening problems. Freaked out yet? Good.”

THE COTTON BALL DIET

“Consuming cotton balls soaked in orange juice – a diet technique may have been born on YouTube, in chat rooms and on Facebook – is an incredibly dangerous way to suppress your appetite. “This makes my eating-disorder therapy head spin,” Caspero says.

Not only does consuming cotton balls in place of food deprive the body of nutrients, eating anything that isn’t actually food can cause blockages in your intestines. What’s more, most cotton balls aren’t even made of cotton – they’re composed of bleached, synthetic fibers.”

People do the tapeworm diet because they are obsessed with being thin. I had a spanish teacher who got worms in south america and became very ill and of course lost tons of weight. But she was sick. To go to that extreme to loose weight is crazyness.